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AN OVERVIEW OF FINANCIAL SYSTEM IN
BANGLADESHCourse: Financial Institutions and Markets (F403)
Submitted to
Syeda Mahrufa Bashar
Lecturer
Submitted by
Deepan Kumar Das (Roll: ZR-10)
MBA (47th
Batch)
Institute of Business Administration
University of Dhaka
Date of Submission: February 07, 2013
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Introduction
The financial system is the system that allows the transfer of money between savers (andinvestors) and borrowers. A financial system can operate on a global, regional or firm specific
level. Gurusamy, writing in Financial Services and Systems has described it as comprising a set
of complex and closely interconnected financial institutions, markets, instruments, services,
practices, and transactions.
Financial systems are crucial to the allocation of resources in a modern economy. They channel
household savings to the corporate sector and allocate investment funds among firms; they allow
inter-temporal smoothing of consumption by households and expenditures by firms; and they
enable households and firms to share risks.
Overview of Financial System in Bangladesh
The financial system of Bangladesh is comprised of three broad fragmented sectors:
1. Formal Sector2. Semi-Formal Sector3. Informal Sector
These sectors have been categorized in accordance with their degree of regulation.
The formal sector includes all regulated institutions such as Banks, Non-Bank Financial
Institutions (FIs), Insurance Companies, Capital Market Intermediaries i.e., Brokerage Houses,Merchant Banks etc., and Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs).
The semi-formal sector includes those institutions which are regulated otherwise but do not fall
under the jurisdiction of Central Bank, Insurance Authority, Securities and Exchange
Commission or any other enacted financial regulator. This sector is mainly represented by
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Specialized Financial Institutions such as House Building Finance Corporation (HBFC), Palli
Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), Samabay Bank, Grameen Bank etc., and Non-
Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and discrete government programs.
On the other hand, the informal sector includes private intermediaries which are completely
unregulated.
Figure 1: Overview of Financial System in Bangladesh
As it is seen from the chart that the formal sector has been bifurcated into Financial Market and
Regulators & Institutions.
The Financial Market consists of
1. Money Market: The primary money market is comprised of banks, FIs and primarydealers as intermediaries and savings & lending instruments, treasury bills as instruments.
There are currently 15 primary dealers (12 banks and 3 FIs) in Bangladesh. The only
active secondary market is overnight call money market which is participated by the
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scheduled banks and FIs. The money market in Bangladesh is regulated by Bangladesh
Bank (BB), the Central Bank of Bangladesh.
2. Capital Market: The primary segment of capital market is operated through private andpublic offering of equity and bond instruments. The secondary segment of capital market
is institutionalized by two stock exchanges- Dhaka Stock Exchange and Chittagong Stock
Exchange. The instruments in these exchanges are equity securities (shares), debentures,
corporate bonds and treasury bonds. The capital market in Bangladesh is governed by
Securities and Commission (SEC).
3. Foreign Exchange Market: Bangladesh Bank, the regulator of foreign exchange market,remains vigilant over the developments in the foreign exchange market and intervenes bybuying and selling foreign currencies whenever it deems necessary to maintain stability
in the foreign exchange market. The foreign exchange market consists of the authorized
dealers.
The Regulators and Institutions can further be classified into the following segments: